Ok, having finished Coupland’s latest novel and Mailer’s latest “book” (really just reprints of speeches or articles surrounded by interviews with his son so nothing exciting, although, in looking it up on Amazon, I discovered that they list a new novel coming next January, which is now on my wish list), I’m back to reading American Gospel by Jon Meacham so my thoughts are very much on church and state tonight. For all the nutty liberals who read this blog (which I think is just about everyone who reads it), here’s a little fruit from my grey matter orchard that you can hurl at unsuspecting members of the religious right (and which I word here as directed towards such small minded folk).
If business operates best when it is least entangled with the government, an idea upon which I think most people out on the right end of the spectrum agree, then why do you believe Christianity is so weak spined that it requires support from the government? Why do you have such little faith in your faith? And if we were brought forth upon this continent as a Christian nation, then why is there no mention of God, the Bible, or even Jesus in the Constitution? (Granted it does mention the “Blessings of Liberty”, but that could just as easily be read as meaning a blessing of Allah.)
Personally, I see Christianity as much stronger and grander than our republic (or any government for that matter). Men created the latter and men can destroy it. God through his Son opened our eyes and hearts to the former and only God can withdraw that blessing from us. If Chrsitianity could survive through a time when it truly was outlawed, which was also at the point when all things are at their weakest, its infancy, then surely it can withstand the removal of the Ten Commandments from a courthouse or allowing women to choose (or not choose) abortion.